Game.



W. STONESTBEET.

GAME.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 22. 1915.

1,1%8,060. Patented July 27,1915.

ammo c WILFRID s'roivnsrnniir, or NASHVILLE, rnnunssnn.

GAME.

Specificationof Letters Patent. Patented Jt ly 2Q, 1915.

Application filed January 27, 1915. Serial No. 4,743. i

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILFRID STONESTBEET, a citizen of the United States, residing at Nashville, in the county of Davidson and State of Tennessee, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in Games, of which the following is a specification.

This invention contemplatesan improved game or puzzle and has as its primary object to provide an article of this characterwhich, in its solution, will require the movementfor shifting of game pieces to simulate the offensive movements of opposing forces in war. Y The invention has as a further obj ect, and more specifically, to provide a game employing certain game pieces which will be suitcation upon the board designatedby the nationality having a particular assigned 1 0-. cation upon the board designed by thena tional flag of such men; to further provide other game pieces representing menof certain. different nationalities constituting allies opposing said first mentioned men, each nationality of the'allies to also have a particular assigned location upon the boarddes ignatcd by the national flag of each ally and wherein'the specific attainment of the game will be to so move the game pieces upon the board that all of the men of thefirstmentioned nationality, or, on'tlle other hand,

all of the men of the allies will occupy the positions of the opposing force.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a game board so constructed andinterestincident to the playing of the game or solution of the puzzle.

Other and incidental objects will appearv as the descriptionproceeds' and in the drawings wherein T have illustrated the'preferred embodiment of [the invention and wherein similar reference characters designate cor.

responding parts through the'severalviews.

Figure 1 is a perspective'view. of my improved game showing the 5 several game pieces in'the r respective pos1tions,'and Fig.

2 is a top plan view more particularly illustrating the construction of the. game board- In carrying out my invention, I employ.

a ga ne-boardindicat'ed as a whole in the...

drawings by the numeral 10. {This gameboard is preferably formed from relatively light sheet metal although any other suitable material may be employed, if found more desirable. As illustrated, the game-board is preferably circular and includes a floor or bottom wall 11 which is surrounded at its periphery, by an annular upstanding flange or side wall 12.

Arranged upon the bottom wall 11 in inwardly spaced relation to the wall 12 is an annular upstanding flange 'or partition wall 13 definingtherebetween and thewall 12, an annularrunway 14:. The wall 13isjcut' away preferably, at quadrantly spaced points to provide passagesor openingsf15 communicating with the runway lt, and the central.

portion ofthe game board.

Medially disposed upon the bottom Wall 11 are a plurality of spacedupstanding walls 16 which are, as best shownin Fig. 2

of the drawings, relativelyshort when considered in connection with'the diameter of the game board and which are arranged. a

parallel with each other. intersecting the -walls 16 medially thereof, is a; transversely extending partition wall 17; which, as will be observed, defines, in connection with the walls 16, oppositely disposed pairs of reversely facingcompartments or positions 18 and 1-9 respectively.

Particular attention is now directed to the fact thatjthe intermediate one of the walls 16 is arranged in aplane intersecting a dia metricmline passing medially through the adjacent opening 15 disposed opposite to said walls,while the openings 15 arranged in a plane atright angles to the said first mentioned openings are disposed opposite the sides of the terminal-walls'lfi. The purpose of this arrangement will presently ap- Arranged within the wall 13 to extend radially therefrom at quadrantly spaced points, are pairs of spaced upstanding walls -20, each pairqof .wallsbeing arranged parallel toeach. other and .the'several walls definingpositions or compartments designated 21,22, 23, and fls respectively.

It will be noted that the several compartments justpreviously referred to are each arrangedimedially between adjacent ,openQ ings 15 and are thus arranged an acuteangle to the acent compartmentslS and 19 respectively, The purpose ofthis construction will also presently appear.

Preferably secured within the angle between the wall 13 at one of the adjacent walls 20 of each compartment is a vertically,

spaced relation above the upper edges of the walls 12 and 13 and are each preferably formed from a single strip ofmetal bent at one terminal to embrace the supporting staff. The flag 26 is colored in any suitable manner to represent a Britishflag. The

flag 27 is similarly colored to represent a French flag, and the flags 28 and 29 are suitably colored to represent'liussian flags.

Preferably arranged within the angle de, fined by the intersecting walls of one of the compartments 18 is an upstanding staff 30 which is mounted in a manner similar to the staffs previously described and is of like character. The staff 30, adjacent the upper terminal thereof is provided with a flag 31, similar in construction to the flags previously described and which is suitably colored to represent the German'flag.

In connectionwith the game-board thus described, I employ a plurality of movable game pieces 32, eight of which are employed, The game pieces'are all similar in construction being. each in the nature of a sphere which maybe formed of any suitable material and in this connection, it may be stated, that ordinary'marbles may be used. Four of'the game pieces are of like color, preferably blue and are to be known as the Germans and are intended to normally occupy the positions 18 andl9 beneath the German flag 31; Two other of the game pieces are also of like color, preferably white, and are to be known as the Russians. These white game pieces are normally in tended to occupy the positions 23 and 2 1 beneath the Russian flags 28 and 29. The remaining two of the game pieces are also of like color preferably red, and are intended to indiscriminately normally occupy the positions 21 and 22 beneath the British and French flags 26 and 27, respectively.

Attention is now directed to the fact that no two game pieces can occupyany one position at the same time while the runway 1 is of such width that the game pieces cannot pass each other therein.

In use, the several game pie'ceswill be disposed upon the. game board'or rolled upon the bottom wall 11 thereof as the game game board, that either thegame pieces representing the Germans which, as will be alinement with any one of the entering through one of the remembered, are identified by the color blue, will occupy the positions of the Bussians, French and British, which latter positions shall be referred to as the allies positlons, or on the other hand, that the game pieces representing the allies which may also be readily distinguished by their representative colors, will occupy the positions of the game piecesof the Germans. If the game-board can be so manipulated: as to cause the game pieces of the allies to occupy the positions of the'game pieces of the Germans before the game pieces of the Germans may have moved to occupy the positions of the allies, the puzzle will be considered to have been solved and the game won in favor of'the allies. On the other hand, if thegame board can be so manipulated as to cause the game pieces of the Germans to occupy the positions of the game pieces of the allies before the game pieces of the allies may have moved to occupy the positions of the game pieces of the Germans, the puzzle will be considered to have been solved and the game won in favor the Germans.

In forming the several compartments of the game board so that no two game pieces can occupy anyone position at the same time, itwillbe seen that when the game board is manipulated in an attempt to solve the puzzle, all of the game pieces not actually within the compartments will remain free to roll'about the board and thus render the solution of the puzzle more difficult.

It'will further be seen that should some cer tain game piece which it were desired to, roll into a particular position, to become disposed with other game pieces .upon each,

game boardwill make the solutionof the puzzle very difiicult and the purpose of making the runway 1-1 so that the game pieces cannot pass therein will, therefore be clean It is further to be observed that notwo game pieces can pass through one of the openings 15 at the same time. This arrange menttends to increase the difficulty of solu tion of the puzzle and in this connection,

particular attention is directed to the fact board s manipulated or tllted within the hands of the operator, the object. of the game or puzzle being toso move the game, pieces through the manipulation of the .that no one of the openings l5 is' directly in several posigamef piece openings 15 opposite the ends of the walls 16 will normally strike thefends. of the said walls to tions 'of the game-board. A

having a plurality of be deflected thereby away from the adjacent positions 18 and 19, while a game piece entering through the oppositely disposed openings 15 at right angles to the first mentioned openings 15, will strike the sides of the terminal walls 16. Furthermore, as will be best seen upon reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings, no two ofv the severalpositions of the board are in alinement with each other. As will be readily understood, this peculiar disposition of the several positions relative to each other and of the open ings 15 relative to the positions, will make the solution of the puzzle quite difiicult'to thus render it the more interesting since it will not be possible in the manipulation of the game-board to roll a game piece in a stright line from one position to another or to roll a game piece in a straight line from the runway 14 through one of the openings 15 to enter one of the said positions. The purpose of the relative arrangement of the several positions of the board as previously referred to, will therefore be clear.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat- 7 1; A device of the character described including a game board, a wall arranged upon the board and defining a runway, said wall spaced passages formed therein, pairs of spaced walls .defining. positions adjacent said first mentioned wall, the said positions being arranged in staggered relation to said pas sages, spaced walls defining a plurality of positions spaced from said first mentioned sages, walls defining oppositely disposed pairs of reversely facing positions. spaced from said first mentioned wall, and a plu- Gopies of this patent may he. obtained for rality of game pieces each adapted to occupy one at a time one of said positions and disposed for movement upon the board through said passages to enter the runway.

3. A device of the character described including a game board, a wall defining a substantially annular runway upon the board, the said wall having quadrantly spaced passages formed therein, radial walls defining quadrantly spaced positions upon the board adjacent said first mentioned wall, the said positions being arranged in staggered relationto said passages, a plurality of intersecting walls defining oppositely disposed pairs of reversely facing positionsmedially of the board, the ends of certain of said last mentioned walls being presented to- .ward certain of said passages, and a plurality of game pieces adapted to occupy said positions and movable upon the board through said passages to enter the runway. 4. A device of the character described ineluding a game board, a wall defining a runway upon the board, said wall having a passage formed therein, walls defining a position adjacent said first mentioned wall,

walls. defining a position spaced from said first mentioned wall, a fiag identifying said first mentioned position, a flag identifying said last mentioned position from the first mentioned position,and a plurality of game pieces identified each with one of said flags and adapted to occupy said positions, said game pieces being movable upon the board through said passage to enter the'runway.

5. A deviceof the character described includinga gameboard, a wall defining a runway upon the board, said wall having a pas- ..sage formed therein, walls defining a posit1on ad acent said first mentloned wall,

walls defining a position spaced from said first mentioned wall, an identifying flag arranged ad acent said first mentioned position, an identifying flag arranged adjacent said last mentioned position, and a plurality of game pieces each identified by a color with one of said flags and adapted to occupy said positions, said game pieces being adapted for movement upon the board through said passage to enter the runway.

WILFRID STONESTREET. [LS-1 Witnesses:

WM. E. STEGER,

T. STEGER, Jr.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. p 

